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By IOL Reporter 
5h ago
Cape Town – A discussion about her father’s interference in their relationship allegedly led to the death of intern physician Shongile Pretty Nkhwashu.
The Limpopo High Court heard on Monday how Ntiyiso Xilumane, charged with murder, killed his girlfriend, News24 reported.
Using his stethoscope, he discovered that he had died.
Nkhwashu’s decomposed body was discovered in his bed after an unpleasant odor emanated from his locked room, which caught the attention of people living in the same doctor’s quarters. The suspect was arrested at his parents’ home.
In a statement read in court by her defense attorney, 26-year-old Xilumane detailed how she left her village in Giyani on January 17 and traveled to Mankweng Hospital on the outskirts of Polokwane to meet Nkhwashu.
They were both medical students at Limpopo University and had a young son.
Kenneth Nkhwashu testified about how Xilumane used to assault his daughter. He said the problems started between Xilumane and her daughter right after the birth of their son, because of the baby’s last name.
Chief Prosecutor Eric Mabapa told Chief Justice Ephraim Makgoba that the state intended to show that the murder was premeditated.
After meeting the deceased at the hospital that fateful day, they went to Nkhwashu’s residence on the hospital premises, Xilumane said in her statement.
“The deceased had a bath and then we went to the bedroom. Then he told me he was going to leave me.
A discussion ensued about her father’s interference in our relationship. He bit my finger, ”Xilumane said.
He said he then grabbed her by the neck and threw her on the bed.
After she stopped moving, she used a “stethoscope, which the deceased at some point showed me how it works, and discovered that she had stopped breathing,” the court heard.
A police source told Sowetan in February that she “had tried to free herself by biting his hands, but that didn’t help.” He said he dragged her to the bed and a few seconds later when he called her by name, she didn’t answer. “
Kenneth Nkhwashu testified how, at some point, his daughter sent him a photo of her with a swollen face. She also mentioned several insulting and threatening messages apparently sent by Xilumane.
But the defense attorney, attorney SM Mawasha, said in his cross-examination that the threatening messages sent by Xilumane were directed at the father and not at the deceased.
The father replied: “If the threats were directed only at me, why was my daughter the one who was killed?”
The trial continues on Tuesday.
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